Today is Tuesday, January 26, 2016, and currently Federal Minimum Wage for Tipped Employees is $2.13 per hour. At $2.13, restaurants can schedule three servers for $6.39 per hour which is less than $7.25 per hour for one cook or for one dishwasher. I feel that restaurants are taking advantage of this and are taking advantage of tipped employees by asking them to fulfill duties traditionally performed by regular Minimum Wage employees, for example: cleaning areas of the kitchen or collectively filling-in as half of the team that washes the dishes. This needs to stop. One way to better-protect tipped employees is to make their hourly wage equal to 50% of regular Minimum Wage. Thank you.
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